Common burial

Common burial

Common burial, also known as mass interment is the burial of several bodies in one collective grave. Human infants, particularly premature ones, are sometimes given a common burial when they die due to loss of pregnancy, stillbirth, or early infant death. One or two small caskets hold all the infants.

Mass graves are a more infamous form of common burial, usually used only in cases with larger numbers of bodies, such as genocide or natural disaster.


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